Archive for the ‘Nationality’ Category
Not one or the other, too German to be Turkish
Turks who have spent their lifetimes in Germany would have a hyphenated national identity, using the American pattern of classification. As soon as I finish writing something else on the subject of nationality, and the strange fluidity between identities, one more thing seems to find its way onto my radar. The January 6 edition of [...]
January 7th, 2011Another bit on American, African, and identity
I can’t help myself, it’s just too complex and juicy an issue. Right after I posted that last bit on nationality, in between cleaning a turkey and chopping up salt pork and tons of garlic, yet another discussion hit my radar on origins, culture, and what you most relate to. This time we’re examining the [...]
November 24th, 2010Turks in Germany, calling nationalilty into question again
It is a complicates issue, as I wrote recently, identifying oneself in the hyphenation-happy categorization rampant in within the notion of modern American nationality. But as has long been touted, this is not an all bad phenomenon. Yes, it puts people in oftentimes artificial categories, Chinese-Americans born here still caught awkwardly between a culture they [...]
November 24th, 2010America and nationality, a troubled love story
For a long time, leaders (and many citizens) saw the United States as a country of, and for, white people. This is clear in our treatment of Native Americans and our trampling of many of the contracts we drew with them, and obviously, in our treatment of African slaves who then developed an African-American identity [...]
November 2nd, 2010